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Quote of the Day: Political critic, education anarchist, and father of modern linguistics Noam Chomsky has released a pamphlet of analysis of the global Occupy movement and advice on how to protest intelligently:

I’m just old enough to remember the Great Depression. After the first few years, by the mid-1930s — although the situation was objectively much harsher than it is today — nevertheless, the spirit was quite different. There was a sense that ‘we’re gonna get out of it,’ even among unemployed people, including a lot of my relatives, a sense that ‘it will get better.’ …

It’s quite different now. For many people in the United States, there’s a kind of pervasive sense of hopelessness, sometimes despair. I think it’s quite new in American history. And it has an objective basis.

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Heard that. 

I think people today are just so used to being disappointed, expecting for things not to go their way, to become victims of their own self fulfilling prophecies in a negative way. 

But how do we get out of that? Especially when we were raised that way. Raised seeing people struggle only to struggle still. 

How do we stop making excuses, get positive and create change?

(via spinster)